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The focus of researchers is to determine the specific arrangement of particles in the ground state, the lowest energy state of the system, by solving these matrix models.

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The ground-state energy E0 as a function of the cutoff for various couplings λ = g2 N = 0.2, 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 for the SU(2) bosonic model. Even (E) and odd (O) values of are plotted with ...